ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area hickeys and nipples

Scott and Watt, you made me feel so old. Took me almost a minute to finally get the drift of your replies. Don't know if my memory is starting to fail, I've matured too much, I've given up, or what. All I know is that if the same question was brought up in apprentice class in 1969 it would have been an hour before that class got under control again.
Ron

How many forum posters does it take to post about nipples?

Ps, what's a nipple?

Angelo licensed the Westinghouse name and guess where most of their products come from: China!

Gloria,

This is a Nipple:



Bill

Oh, if I only knew how to post a picture of Janet Jackson!

Sorry, and the hickey?
(Also if you would let me out, what these are for?)

I can feel that the nipple should go into the hole on the wall, and it possibly has an inner thread too.
The other should be the plastic one that also goes in the wall to hold the screw?

Gloria,

The discussion here is about parts used in hanging light fixtures. Here is a picture of some:



Bill

The hickey is the bracket made out of a piece of flat steel.

Bent so it looks like a C. Holes at each end, threaded so it can screw over a nipple.

It's the item all the way to the right in this picture.



[This message has been edited by SvenNYC (edited 11-24-2004).]

If someone says hickey to me, I think of this
[img]http://198.247.193.8/wwwroot/greenlee/WallyTest/images/18103.JPG [/img]

I had no idea it was a lighting fixture part